Backend.UserLand.ComHow to hook into UserLand.Com through XML, XML-RPC and SOAP.My political FAQ for RSS 2.0- June 30, 2003 Do you have a question for me about the politics of RSS I will do my best, time-permitting, to answer non-personal, respectful questions about the politics of RSS. I've started by answering the first three questions I hear most often. If you have a question, send me an email and I'll do my best to answer it in the FAQ.http://backend.userland.com/davesRss2PoliticalFaq Tentative endorsement of Echo- June 26, 2003 About Echo, here's a tentative endorsement. If and when it reaches closure, I will recommend to UserLand that they support the format, both for input and output, and I will help to the extent I can to write drivers for the software. I will continue to answer questions for the people working on Echo, and offer my opinion when it appears to be welcome, but will step back when it is not. However I will also strongly insist, as a user, and major shareholder that UserLand continue to support RSS...http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/26#a313 Lockergnome RSS feeds for Amazon- June 25, 2003 An awesome application of RSS. Chris Pirillo has set up a set of dozens of feeds covering every product category on Amazon. You can subscribe to them to find about new stuff. This is so excellent. Right on right on.http://www.lockergnome.com/amazon/ Jon Udell: Fixing RSS's public-relations problem- June 25, 2003 "Over the years, people have asked me which version of RSS to use. I've always said it doesn't matter, they all do the same thing. But the question always annoys me, because while I've tried to pretend otherwise, the fragmentation of RSS really is a problem. I think it's part of the reason my two acquaintances aren't using RSS today."http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/06/25.html#a732 The lizard-brain of RSS- June 25, 2003 Simon Willison is helping a friend get an RSS feed together for her weblog, and had some questions and had to guess because there is no FAQ. Of the three decisions he made, I strongly agree with two of them. Now for the third -- should he use link or guid to represent the permalink to the post I believe he should use guid because that's what it was designed for. Link was designed for something else. First, link has the easier name because it predates guid by three years, and its design is...http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/25#a308 Post IDs- June 25, 2003 FWIW, in RSS 2.0, I thought there should be a core-level post ID element, but I thought there was a pretty good chance, based on experience with the Blogger API, that each tool would have a different way of expressing it. The compelling app for post ID's is backup and restore. If I'm using RSS to back up a weblog, and if I need to do a restore, the post ID's must be preserved, or when I regenerate the site after a restore, permalinks will break. Also since Radio and Manila are programming...http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/25#a306 |